The hidden side of such dreamy existence, though, can be the isolation some islanders feel.
Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, in Ravel's orchestration, contained some ravishing things, such as the poised, dreamy Vecchio Castello, though the work's darker moments, Gnomus and The Hut on Fowl's Legs, failed to disturb.
My quest was not only for oohs-and-aahs dreamy rooms, though this house has more than its share, from Jamie Drake's serenely limpid lilac-hued bathroom to Garrett Chingery's oh-so-Cocteau mirror-filled "reflecting room".
Mr. Martins's "Red Violin" is similarly devoted to dreamy adagio movement, though with less personality.
As he says this, Salman looks into the distance with a dreamy sadness, as though he is still riding pillion on his grandfather's bike, watching his world and his Islam creakily pedal into oblivion.
It looks more dreamy than the real thing, though; it could be an hommage to Giacometti's great Surrealist sculpture "The Place at Four A.M".
That dreamy encounter after the opera, though?
In the dreamy imagination of illustrator Jonas Claesson, though, the animal kingdom gets its chance to hang ten.
Dix gained his edge with a fluent mastery of varied styles, from steely realism to poetic (though hardly dreamy) fantasy.
But first, here are four exclusive previews: Yo La Tengo covers Todd Rundgren's "I Saw the Light," though their dreamy, Brazilian-tinged version sounds like a version from Rundgren's bossa nova remake record "With a Twist" rather than the original.
